neighbourhood in Amsterdam
Joris Ivenspleinbuurt
2,930 residents · postal code 1087 · Part of IJburg-West, Amsterdam
Everything for children close by, and little room
The tree canopy in Joris Ivenspleinbuurt covers less than a fifth of what is usual nationally, and greenery within three hundred metres stalls at about a third of the national median. That is the core of the 2.8 for quiet & nature — together with a density of nearly eighteen thousand residents per square kilometre in IJburg-West, where the entire housing stock went up after 2000.
Against that stands a 9.4 for families, and it is exceptionally well founded: the primary school is two hundred metres away, the restaurant and supermarket roughly the same.
On wealth & income, caution is needed with any blanket statement. Property values are well above the national median and so is the share of higher incomes, but the social assistance rate is a multiple above. The 6.5 therefore covers two different realities inside the same boundary.
- no. 5,245 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 150 of 454 in Amsterdam
How Joris Ivenspleinbuurt scores
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Is Joris Ivenspleinbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Joris Ivenspleinbuurt comes out at 31 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 141 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
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The figures ⌄Amenities
Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Wealth & income
What the homes are worth, what residents earn and how many homes stand empty. It describes the area, not the people living in it.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Quiet & nature
How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
Not part of the grade: air quality varies mostly between regions, barely between neighbourhoods within one municipality. WHO guideline: 5 µg/m³. Calculated annual mean, RIVM 2024.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Families
How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.
Tick = Dutch median
Who lives here
Joris Ivenspleinbuurt has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 38%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2515%
NL median 11%
- 25–4538%
NL median 22%
- 45–6523%
NL median 28%
- 65+9%
NL median 22%
Share of residents per age group (CBS, 2025). All five bars share one scale, so their lengths can be compared with each other.
Average household size
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
48% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
32% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
17,899 — far more densely populated than average
NL median 2,364
Tick = Dutch median. Households with children counts towards Families, population density towards Quiet & nature; the other figures here get no grade.
Frequently asked questions
Is Joris Ivenspleinbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Joris Ivenspleinbuurt comes out at 31 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. One caveat: the figure counts per person present, not per resident. In a neighbourhood with many visitors — a centre, a station, a shopping area — it therefore comes out higher than residents experience. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Joris Ivenspleinbuurt?
In Joris Ivenspleinbuurt the police recorded 141 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (31 per 1,000) is not simply that count divided by the number of residents: we count residents plus workplaces, so a shopping street or station is not unfairly penalised, and for small counts we pull the figure towards the national average — otherwise a single incident would make a small neighbourhood look unsafe.
How is the grade for Joris Ivenspleinbuurt calculated?
Joris Ivenspleinbuurt scores 7.0 as its total score. That grade is a national position: we weigh five equally heavy scores — safety, amenities, wealth & income, quiet & nature and families — and see where Joris Ivenspleinbuurt lands among every neighbourhood in the Netherlands. So it is not the mean of the five grades, but a place in the queue. All from open data published by CBS and the police.
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